Deployment
Matternet M2 at Switzerland
Matternet's delivery drone: about 2 kg payload over 20 km, and the first non-military drone to hold FAA Type Certification (Sept 2022) plus Production Certification. Operated by UPS Flight Forward and in NHS London hospital networks.
Matternet M2 by Matternet · Catalog entry · 3 sources · not yet field-verified
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /deployments/matternet-swiss-post-switzerland.md
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/robots/50a40681-6078-493e-a3ea-7bdd3efb3f5a
- Data documentation: /data
Matternet's early autonomous medical-delivery network with Swiss Post (Lugano, Zurich, Bern; since around 2017). Operations were suspended in 2019 after two crashes, one involving a parachute-recovery failure that brought a drone down near a group of children; the program partially resumed at hospital facilities in 2020. Current full-network operation is not independently verified as of 2026; recorded as a paused/historical deployment per the verified-vs-claimed discipline (a documented safety-suspension event, not a marketing-only continuity claim).
Key facts
- Operator
- Swiss Post (Matternet M2)
- Status note
- Launched ~2017; suspended 2019 after two crashes (one parachute failure); partial resumption 2020; current full operation unverified
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 3 sources · not yet field-verified
- Last updated
- 2026-05-31
- Model
- Matternet M2
- Company
- Matternet
- Location
- Switzerland
- Status
- paused
- First seen
- 2017-01-01
- ID
50a40681-6078-493e-a3ea-7bdd3efb3f5a
Verifications (0)
No verifications recorded yet.
Sources (3)
- https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/30/drone-crash-near-kids-leads-swiss-post-and-matternet-to-suspend-autonomous-deliveries/
- https://spectrum.ieee.org/swiss-post-suspends-drone-delivery-service-after-second-crash
- https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/emea/swiss-post-matternet-resume-drone-delivery-operations-hospital-facilities-switzerland